Reform and Regret : The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System.
Title:
Reform and Regret : The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System.
Author:
Yackle, Larry W.
ISBN:
9780195363418
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1 Conditions Precedent -- 2 Genesis -- 3 Progeny -- 4 Denouement -- 5 Intransigence -- 6 Recalcitrance -- 7 Déjà Vu -- 8 Ambivalence -- 9 Paralysis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
This important book describes the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through constitutional litigation in the federal courts. Yackle describes the process that produced Judge Frank Johnson's decree that the system constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," and subsequent efforts to enforce order in the face of bureaucratic inertia, administrative incompetence, and political demagogy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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